{"id":499,"date":"2026-02-16T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:01","slug":"lithium-battery-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Battery Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Savage of Myth Busters Fame released a 21&#8242; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Y23nfAOiXQ\">video<\/a> &#8220;The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries&#8221;on YouTube on January 20, 2026.\u00a0 Adam has 7,100,000 subscribers.\u00a0 Adam interviews these two employees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumafield.com\">Lumafield<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jualexju\">Alex Hao<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andreas-l-bastian\/\">Andreas Bastian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The upshot is that Lumafield has used a scanning device to see what is really inside a battery and noted that Lithium battery designs have very high tolerances as to where positive and negative lines are separated.\u00a0 Batteries which are not subject to high level quality assurance can have a higher percentage of alignment problems that may lead to spontaneous combustion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260216_091215_Mon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1055\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260216_091215_Mon.png 1055w, https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260216_091215_Mon-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260216_091215_Mon-768x587.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 41 page PDF was created September 23, 2025.\u00a0 It is available for download at Lumafield&#8217;s site at: https:\/\/www.lumafield.com\/battery-report\u00a0 You have to to identify yourself and provide contact information, then the report is made available at no charge for download.\u00a0 Lumafield also sends you a follow-up email where you can download the report.<\/p>\n<p>This is a real eye-opener and underscores buying name brand batteries is good insurance.<\/p>\n<p>I also posted to Andreas Spiess&#8217; battery project for posterity:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/SensorsIot\/SuperPower\/issues\/45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Savage of Myth Busters Fame released a 21&#8242; video &#8220;The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries&#8221;on YouTube on January 20, 2026.\u00a0 Adam has 7,100,000 subscribers.\u00a0 Adam interviews these two employees from Lumafield: Alex Hao Andreas Bastian The upshot is that Lumafield has used a scanning device to see what is really inside a battery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[93,94],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronics","category-uncategorized","tag-battery","tag-lithium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}